This blog is to keep our family and friends informed on how things are going while we are at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences in Little Rock. Some people have asked why I choose to go all the way to Little Rock which is a 610 mile drive from home. UAMS has the Myeloma Institute of Research and Therapy. Here, they treat more people with Myeloma than any hospital in the world.
Why is the Myeloma Institute located here?
The founder of Wal-Mart, Sam Walton, had Multiple Myeloma. The story goes that he brought a doctor (Dr Bart Barlogie) to Little Rock from the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas and gave him 20 million dollars to start the Institute here. Dr Barlogie is still in charge of the Institute. I have been told there are over 10,000 Myeloma patients that come here from all over the world for treatment. We went to a question and answer session the other night given by Dr Barlogie. There was a couple there from Armenia and one of them had Multiple Myeloma.